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DIW Economic Bulletin 6/7 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 6/7 / 2017
According to the German federal government’s climate protection targets, there will be a continuous reduction of lignite-based electricity well before 2030. Simulations show that the currently authorized lignite mines in eastern Germany would not be fully depleted if the climate protection targets for 2030 were complied with. This makes planning for new mines or the expansion of existing ones superfluous. ...
2017| Pao-Yu Oei, Hanna Brauers, Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen, Dorothea Schäfer, Sophie Schmalz
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DIW Economic Bulletin 6/7 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 5 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 5 / 2017
The real disposable income of private households in Germany, accounting for inflation, rose by 12 percent between 1991 and 2014. This is what the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has shown. However, the trends varied greatly depending on income group. While the middle income segment rose by more than eight percent, the highest income segment increased by up to 26 percent. ...
2017| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
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DIW Economic Bulletin 5 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 3/4 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 3/4 / 2017
The initial fiscal costs associated with refugee integration are quite high—but as more and more refugees join the labor force, a reduction in ongoing welfare costs and an increase in government revenue will result. Against this background, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and DIW Berlin conducted a joint investigation (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social ...
2017| Stefan Bach, Herbert Brücker, Peter Haan, Agnese Romiti, Kristina van Deuverden, Enzo Weber
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DIW Economic Bulletin 3/4 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2 / 2017
Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector’s top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin’s Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated compared to last year. Since 2010, when the discussion about the gender quota for supervisory boards gained ...
2017| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2 / 2017
The gender quota for supervisory boards that has been mandatory since January 2016 has shown an initial impact. According to DIW Berlin’s Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the 106 companies subject to the statutory quota than one year before. Their proportion increased by a solid four percentage points to more than 27 percent. And in ...
2017| Elke Holst, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Economic Bulletin 1/2 / 2017
2017
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DIW Economic Bulletin 51/52 / 2016
2016
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DIW Economic Bulletin 51/52 / 2016
A comprehensive, microdata-based analysis of the German tax system's distributional effects in 2015 shows that the total tax burden from direct and indirect taxes is slightly progressive on higher income, but regressive in the lower deciles. Income and corporate taxes are distinctly progressive. They impose hardly any burden on lower- and middle-income households, but the average burden significantly ...
2016| Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska, Viktor Steiner
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DIW Economic Bulletin 51/52 / 2016
2016
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DIW Economic Bulletin 50 / 2016
2016
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DIW Economic Bulletin 50 / 2016
In spite of persisting unfavorable external economic conditions, the German economy’s upward trend continues, with a growth of 1.2 percent expected for the coming year – slightly less than the 1.8 percent growth rate of 2016, a difference primarily due to the fact that 2017 has fewer workdays. A growth rate of 1.6 percent is expected for 2018. Although employment growth has slowed down somewhat since ...
2016| Ferdinand Fichtner, Karl Brenke, Marius Clemens, Simon Junker, Claus Michelsen, Maximilian Podstawski, Thore Schlaak, Kristina van Deuverden
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DIW Economic Bulletin 50 / 2016
The world economy is gaining momentum after sluggish growth in the first half 2016 – which was primarily due to a weak expansion in the emerging markets – gave way to a slight acceleration. This trend is likely to continue, and will increasingly benefit the developed economies as well. The brightening labor market situation in advanced countries is leading to a higher level of consumer demand, which ...
2016| Ferdinand Fichtner, Guido Baldi, Christian Dreger, Hella Engerer, Stefan Gebauer, Michael Hachula, Malte Rieth
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DIW Economic Bulletin 50 / 2016
2016